Locked On

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was disturbed by the amount of unnecessary profanity in this book. As a long time reader and fan of Tom Clancy, I was looking forward to reading this adventure. Previous Clancy books (those written by Tom himself) have had an element of profanity, normally used with effect to punctuate tense action. This book, on the other hand, was so much gratuituous use of the f*** word, it was very sickening to read. I almost quit reading several times. I'm very disappointed.

Not quite the good ole days of Ding & Mr. C, but quite a bit better than the garbage with Clancy's name on it or co-authored over the last half dozen years. A bit slow in parts, the Rainbow 6 warriors are being stretched beyond their years like the Bourne series. Time for some new characters & some new life in Clancy novels, that or its past the time to put down the pen for Mr. Clancy.

I rate the action/suspense novel Locked On by Tom Clancy 4 of 5 stars. This novel had more of a Ludlum feel to it than Clancy, but hey, I enjoyed it. A modern-day terrorist plot is at the heart of this story. The reason for four stars rather than five is that the story seemed to have several plotlines in flight that didn’t tie together in a meaningful way. In fact, the finale plotline seemed to start about ½ way into the book and it didn’t build from the pre-work done in the other plot lines. So, to me, the story was fragmented. That said, it was still a good solid story with richly developed characters. When you get to the finale story line, you’ll wonder “how the heck did we get here?”. I do recommend this book.